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• ECO 203 Entire Course (Old Course)

• ECO 203 Week 1 DQ 1 Opportunity Costs

• ECO 203 Week 1 DQ 1 Opportunity Costs
• ECO 203 Week 1 DQ 2 NYC Rent
• ECO 203 Week 2 DQ 1 The Local Job Force
• ECO 203 Week 2 DQ 2 GDP

• Week 1 DQ1
• Opportunity Costs
• One of the scarce resources that constrain our
  behavior is time. Each of us has only 24 hours in
  a day. How do you go about allocating your time
  in a given day among competing alternatives? How
  do you go about weighing the alternatives?

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• ECO 203 Week 1 DQ 2 NYC Rent (Old Course)

• ECO 203 Week 2 DQ 1 The Local Job Force

• Week 1 DQ2
• NYC Rent
• The rent for apartments in New York City has been
  rising sharply. Demand for apartments in New York
  City has been rising sharply as well. This is
  hard to explain because the law of demand says
  that higher prices should lead to lower demand

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• Week 2 DQ1
• The Local Job Force
• Visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics and click on
  the links for state employment and unemployment.
  Look at your home state and describe what changes
  have taken place in the workforce and
  unemployment rate.

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• ECO 203 Week 2 DQ 2 GDP (Old Course)

• ECO 203 Week 3 DQ 1 In Retrospect (Old Course)

• Week 2 DQ2
• With each of the following examples, please
  explain what happens to contributions to GDP and
  economic growth in each of the following
  statements          a.       A woman who makes
  a living charging for investment advice on her
  Internet website marries one of her clients, to
  whom

• Week 3 DQ1
• In Retrospect
• While many thought that the 2008 fiscal stimulus
  plan described in the feature on pg. 174 was a
  good idea, some did not. Some even thought that
  Congress didnt go far enough. In retrospect, who
  was right? Did the economy experience a recession
  in 2008 or 2009?

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• ECO 203 Week 3 DQ 2 The Money Supply

• ECO 203 Week 3 Fed and Its Tools (Old Course)

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• Week 3 DQ2
• The Money Supply
• Why do you think the FED evaluates the money
  multiplier when making decisions with regard to
  the money supply? What function does the money
  supply serve in our economy to influence certain
  economic variables?

• Fed and Its ToolsGiven the role of the Fed in
  our economy, how can the Fed use the tools that
  it has to influence an economy that it is in a
  recession?

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• ECO 203 Week 4 DQ 1 Wage Increases

• ECO 203 Week 4 DQ 2 Inflation (Old Course)

• Week 4 DQ1
• Wage Increases
• Your boss offers you a wage increase of 10
  percent. Is it possible that you are worse off
  with the wage increase than you were before?

• Week 4 DQ2
• Inflation
• On pg. 255 in your text, The Economics in
  Practice describes the increase in food prices
  around the world in 2008. Since food, in large
  measure, affects the real income of households,
  increasing prices will eventually push up wages
  and have an impact on the aggregate supply curve.

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• ECO 203 Week 5 DQ 1 Balanced Budgets

• ECO 203 Week 5 DQ 2 Output vs. Workers

• Week 5 DQ1
• Balanced Budgets
• Some states are required to balance their
  budgets. Is this measure stabilizing or
  destabilizing? Suppose all states were committed
  to a balanced budget philosophy and the economy
  moved into a recession.

• Week 5 DQ2
• Output vs. Workers
• Between October 2004 and 2005, real GDP in the
  United States increased by 3.6 percent, while
  nonfarm payroll jobs increased by only 1.4 percent

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• ECO 203 Week 5 Final Paper The Future

• Final Paper
• Complete a 5-6 page final paper that completely
  answers the following
• Economists generally agree that high budget
  deficits today will reduce the growth rate of the
  economy in the future. Why?

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